At DevelopmentNow we are doing some work for a client, work which involves us doing a bunch of scraping and reformatting of their data to build a mobile-friendly website. This is a big customer with a big IT department, so as you might expect there are often issues when we need access to their internal …
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Evinha: Que Bandeira
I just love this song. There is a sublime happiness in the rendition, yet it comes with some strange grammar and words which are not familiar to me even after having lived in Brazil. So, I asked my brother Erich from Brazil more about it. He gave me this fascinating reply which gives insight into …
Elimination Diet: first days of reintroduction
So, I got over the first hump, going three weeks without eating soy, dairy, wheat/gluten, sugar, meat and a bunch of other things. I figured now would be the downhill slope, but not so. Feeling pretty pissy about the whole elimination diet (smile!) because it has been more of a challenge to reintroduce than just cut …
Solsara Introduction
Went to a “Solsara” introduction last night. Looks like a great course. What I got: we did an exercise where we walk up to someone and say whatever comes up, trusting your intuition about the person. They only respond by saying “Thank you.” I noticed how I was very uncomfortable saying what was really in …
What happened on my United flight back from Brazil two years ago
The following story is what happened to me on a United flight back to Brazil two years ago. This is a story of an emergency landing in the middle of the Amazon, followed by several customer service mishaps, compounded by more customer service debacles, punctuated by a scary outcome that could happen to you if …
Why I won’t book with Orbitz again
Picture this: you’ve just braved traveling through a large metropolis named New York, taking the subway during rush hour, getting off at the wrong stop from the subway, leaving the subway to find yourself lost in the Bronx, late for your plane and standing in the sub-zero temperatures waiting for a taxi for twenty minutes. …
Using GIT over a tethered G1 connection
The G1 is awesome because you can setup a SOCKS proxy and browse (using a web browser) anywhere you have T-Mobile service. This means I don’t ever have to worry about a wifi connection, and I am considering cancelling my DSL because the G3 network is actually fast enough to download files at a reasonable …
an introduction and a commitment
I always have a lot of resistance to writing. A feeling invades my being that tells me I’ll be digging into a lot of pain. However, when I am on the road, I do write, and I notice so many great thoughts and clarifications during those times. Is this because I write on a pad …